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"Come on Erik, say Padre." Tony encouraged.

Erik just cocked his head to the side before sticking a few fingers in his mouth.

"Pa-dr-e," Tony said slowly.

"Papa," Erik said stringing together his first word.

"LEROY!" Tony yelled from his position on the floor in the living room.

"What wrong."Gibbs said sliding as he tried to stop on quickly in his socked feet.

"Listen. Erik say Padre." Tony said looking at the little boy.

"Papa." Erik said instead studiously.

"Attaboy Erik." Gibbs said smiling brightly.

"We're getting there. And he said his first word." Tony said happily.

"You keep working on that," Gibbs said heading back to the kitchen where he was making dinner.

"Pa-drr-ay."

"Drrr," Erik echoed.

"Padre."

"Padrrrai." Erik said scrunching his eyebrows.

"Almost buddy, pa-drr-ay."

"Padrrray." Erik said echoing Tony's beaming smile.

"Padre," Tony said smiling and pointing at himself.

"Padre," Erik said reaching for Tony.

"Good job buddy!" Tony said tossing the ten month old in the air.

"Did he get it?" Gibbs called from the kitchen.

"He did!" Tony yelled back as he stood, Erik in his arms.

"Attaboy," Gibbs said smiling as Tony and Erik appeared in the kitchen.

"Papa," Erik said reaching for Gibbs.

"Who's that?" Gibbs asked pointing at Tony as he took the baby into his arms.

"Padre," Erik said smiling.

"Are you hungry Erik, should we have dinner?" Tony asked as Gibbs set him in the highchair. Erik just smiled brightly at them in answer.

"Maybe we should work on yes and no next." Gibbs suggested as they sat to eat.

"I'd have to agree to that." Tony said smiling.

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"Come on Erik, you can do it." Gibbs encouraged as the baby took a few wobbly steps towards him.

"Papa," Erik said smiling.

"That's it, you're almost done buddy." Tony said staying close by with a video camera he had recently acquired in his hands.

They watched as Erik made the last few steps to Gibbs and dropped into his arms before being swept up off of the floor and tossed into the air.

"Good job buddy." Tony said as Gibbs held his hand up for a high five.

"Daddy," Erik said reaching for Tony. It was pretty well balanced between Tony being called daddy and padre but Gibbs had always been papa so far which the team found exceedingly cute.

Tony took him willingly into his arms and turned the camera to face them saying, "So that was Erik's first time walking on his own! He did an amazing job, and now I think it's time for the little man to be changed."

"Wow, aren't you getting the embarrassing parent down pat." Gibbs said cackling in the background.

"Amazing the cold hearted bastard smiling and laughing," Tony said spinning the camera so it was showing Gibbs' smiling laughing face.

"Better watch what you say padre," Gibbs warned scowling again.

"I know, I know. You know I love you Leroy." Tony said smiling winningly at the man.

"Yeah but are you sure I love you," Gibbs asked raising an eyebrow; still Tony could tell he was only teasing.

By now Tony had stopped the recording and was heading for the stairs head bowed pretending to be downtrodden. He had just laid Erik down in his crib when strong arms wrapped around his waist and he was pulled back against a hard chest.

"I love you," Gibbs said quietly into his ear.

"I know," Tony said wiggling free and heading for the door.

"Smart ass," Gibbs said swatting said appendage when he caught up to the other man again.

"What that isn't what you were expecting to hear?" Tony asked innocently.

Gibbs didn't justify him with an answer only smacking him again in response as he dropped down onto the couch in the living room.

"What's up with all of this abuse, I don't think I did anything wrong and here you are hurting me." Tony said pouting.

"Would you like me to kiss it and make it better?" Gibbs asked waggling his eyebrows.

"And if I do," Tony asked.

"I'd say we have to work in the morning."

"Lame, I'm sure you can come up with better."

"How about your son sleeps right across from the room we would be in?"

"We could always go to the basement, you can't honestly say you've never wanted to pin someone to a rib of the boat and take them." Tony said huskily.

"Apparently you've thought about it." Gibbs said lips inches from Tony's.

"Oh yeah, I've thought about it." Tony said closing the distance between their lips. He pulled Gibbs towards the basement door and down the steps before the other man seemed to snap back to reality.

He pushed Tony roughly against one of the ribs of the boat covering his mouth with his own. The kiss lasted for what seemed like forever. Gibbs had just pushed Tony's shirt down off of his shoulders when a cry could be heard through the baby monitor that had become a permanent fixture in the basement.

"Daddy," Erik called and Tony could hear the tears before the child actually started sobbing.

Gibbs stepped back allowing Tony the space he needed to get to the stairs.

"Hey buddy, what's wrong?" he asked as he scooped the baby out of his crib.

"Bad, scawed," Erik sobbed into Tony's chest.

"Shh, it's okay. It wasn't real don't worry baby, everything's okay." Tony murmured rubbing Erik's back and bouncing him up and down.

"Everything okay in here," Gibbs asked quietly from the doorway.

"Yeah, just a bad dream;" Tony said smiling at Gibbs who was holding his shirt. "You can just throw that in the dirty clothes if you want, it's covered in sawdust."

"Sure thing," Gibbs agreed with a smile disappearing for a moment before re-entering the room pressing a kiss to Erik's temple.

"Do you want papa to hold you?" Tony asked the baby.

"No, Daddy."

"Alright, no worries buddy, I'll hold you." Tony said calmly.

"Tay wif chew?" Erik asked lip wobbling.

"Of course buddy," Tony said melting instantly at the look on Erik's face.

"Lub you daddy," Erik murmured sleepily as he clung to Tony.

"I love you too buddy." Tony said trying to set the baby down in his crib as he started drifting back off to sleep.

"No! Tay wif daddy an papa." Erik demanded.

"Alright," Tony said picking him back up and heading for the stairs.

Gibbs muttered something that Tony couldn't quite make out, but figured was something along the lines of 'what a mood killer.'

"No worries Leroy, you'll get your chance to play." Tony said pressing a kiss to his lovers cheek. "Just think, you didn't want to play in the first place."

"Do you want to watch a movie Erik?" Gibbs asked ignoring the other man.

Erik smiled and nodded happily. He loved movies almost as much as his daddy. His favorite was 'The Lion King' and as such they always ended up watching it. It fairly tiresome after a while, and sometimes felt like it was the only thing they ever watched but it was worth it to see Erik's smiling face when it had finished.

Gibbs set up everything and started the movie sitting with Tony between his legs on the couch, chest to back while Erik lay curled up on Tony's chest still clinging to the man's chest.

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Kind of short I know but I feel content in stopping here.

Thanks to: BE1313, Tahiri 2, Blue-Eyed Chica, Angeleyes46, Gloworm41 my first reviewers for the chapter, gotta say I almost went with BE1313 on her vote for the daddy, papa thing just cause she was the first to review but she's the only one that liked papa (except me of course, but I wanted the opinions of the readers since you're the one's submitting to this. But still I got Erik a nice papa don't you agree?)

ANYWAY…. I really hoped you liked this chapter I'm surprised I got it done so fast, but maybe that means it's really crappy I don't know you tell me!

Love always,

Emily Rai!